KDE3 on Jaunty
Just a quick follow up. The plans to maintain my KDE3 addiction worked, but it wasn’t a smooth ride. I don’t recommend it for anyone who isn’t keen to tinker. During the KDE3 installation some packages wanted to overwrite KDE4 files, which caused all sorts of issues with my package manager. I had to use dpkg to force a couple packages to install before I could remove the KDE4 ones and then re-installed the KDE3 ones just to be sure. I ended up culling a fair few of the default KDE4 packages to make sure I didn’t have any more problems like this. I can still login to KDE4, but some of the nicer stuff like Compiz is gone.
I had issues with Compiz in particular, there are problems with the latest nVidia drivers. The latest Compiz has a workaround for this, but it’s not available for the KDE3 version. I found the simplest solution was just to switch back to the 177 driver version and then it was all good.
So yeah, I recommend just switch to Gnome, or try KDE4 on Jaunty and enable the folder view desktop. It seems like pointless overhead to me, the folder view is just a full screen widget. Note also that it doesn’t span screens, so if you have a dual screen setup and you want some icons spattered on the second screen you’re out of luck. KDE3′s days are numbered so eventually I’ll have to face reality and move on. I’ve prolonged it for about another year now I reckon, but eventually I’m going to have to face the music.
I wanted to post this sooner, but the recent Word Press update broke my WYSIWYG. Luckily it was just a javascript conflict with one of my plugins, some people had much worse issues with the update. Still it’s embarrassing since I was just bragging to my mate the other day about how fantastic this application is, particularly the update management. Bloody updates, they are the bane of my life!
“I don’t recommend it for anyone who isn’t keen to tinker.”
Yeah right..so you mean all the rest is OK? Text editors that respond to magic trickery like “:wq!” to save a file, isn’t consider tinkering?
You got to love Linux!
Lol, yeah. It’s funny you mention that. I got handed a vi coffee mug today with all the useful commands on it.
But yeah, bring on the GUI! If I can use an sftp client and a normal text editor, I’ll take that option any day!